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Novelist-Playwright De Hartog (The Distant Shore, The Fourposter) makes Skipper Harinxma the most intriguing ship's officer since Horatio Hornblower. This is surprising in some ways, for the hero's trials occur on the well-plowed Murmansk run during World War II. Moreover, the author nearly scuttles his story whenever his captain heads for shore, particularly in one farfetched episode in which Martinus beds down with the wife of a dead shipmate. But De Hartog's descriptions of prowling U-boats and fear-swept sea combat are adroit and chilling, as vivid as Very-lights...
...hospitals are being restored into a sort of Polynesian Williamsburg. Tourists can cruise offshore in the 53-ft. schooner The Allure and, in wintertime, watch the herds of 50-ft.-long humpback and lob-tail whales that frolic and cavort with their calves as close as 150 ft. from shore...
FORMS OF NATURE AND LIFE by Andreas Feininger. 170 pages. Viking. $18.50. Here, the camera eye sensitively probes the world around man-land, shore, water, insects, animal engineering. A beauty of a book for armchair naturalists...
...martial to face charges of importing bolt upon bolt of Thai silk and other fabrics into Viet Nam "in excess of his demonstrable personal need," illegally converting $12,000 worth of Vietnamese piastres and U.S. military scrip into dollars, and-possibly the most offensive of all sins to his shore-based seniors-installing Jannie as his mistress...
Britain moved first. Unhappy over Bedas' refusal to buy British Aircraft VC10s for Intra-owned Middle East Airlines (MEA), Whitehall pressured Kuwait into transferring funds away from Intra and into Britain to shore up the pound. Then the government of France, which owns 15% of MEA, covets the rest, and doesn't like pro-American Bedas in any case, blocked an Intra bid to build a seriously needed new European headquarters in Paris. Next Russia, always glad to oblige in such matters, had its Narodny Bank withdraw the $5,000,000 it had deposited with Intra. Narodny staffers...